Or sowing machine for  boot planting



H. C. TOOMEY SPREADING 0R SOWING MACHINE FOR ROOT PLANTING July 19, 1927.

Filed Oct. 9, 1924 F/ci 4.

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stolons. joints or cut pieces so Patented July 19, 1927.

restart HOWARD Cl. TOQMEY, PHILADELPHIA, PENNEYYLVANIA.

SPREADING R SOXVING ll'lACHIN'Eil FOE, ROOT PLANTING.

Application filed October 9, 11.924. Serial No. 742,512.

In the planting of bent grass. sods are torn and cut apart to ru'ovide stolons joints or cutpicces which are planted by first spreading); them on the surface of the group d and then covering: them with top dressing.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a machine for s 'ireadiun tactorily upon the surface 0? the around wuilc at the same time the machine may be propelled by power. Another object of the invention is to construct and provide mechanism which will. properly distribute the cut material. and sow it evenly on the surface ot the around even though the machine be propelled by power and therefore operated more rapidly than would be the case it it were otherwise propelled. Other objects ot the invent ion will appear from the following; description at the end at which the invention will be claimed.

One embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing; forminp; part hereof and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation.

Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the partof the machine shown at the right hand in Fig. l,

3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4c is atop or plan view of a portion of the parts illustrating a detail of construction.

In the drawings 1 is a frame mounted on or connected with an automotive carriage 2. 3 and 4 are a pair of rolls turnably mounted in the frame and provided with rows of overlapping; teeth, more specifically, the rolls are provided with disks which overlap and the disks are provided with teeth disposed at their circumferences and which may there fore be described. as overlapping, as dis closed in Fig. 4. 5 is a hopper mounted on the frame and having its bottom and outlet opening 6 disposed at the bipght of the rolls. 7 is an agitator at the outlet opening of the hopper and it is provided with two sets of pins of which one set. 8. project generally horizontally over the rolls and oi which the other set, 9, is less numerous and project generally vertically down toward the space between the rolls sometimes referred to as the big-ht between or of the rolls. As shown the agitator consists of a bar afforded a range of endwise oscillating motion or movement crosswise of the frame. This bar is operated upon by one end ll) of a bell crank lever pivoted at "11 and ot which the other arm 12 is connected by the link 13 with a crank pin on the end of a shaft 14 rotated by gearing 15 'lrom the power means 16 which propels the machine. The rolls 8 and l are turned first in one direction and. then in the other direction through the medium of c ank arms l"? with which connected a lever 18, and the lever 18 is connected by a link 19 with a crank pin 20 on the shaft l t. 21 is a means by which the throw of the lever 18 may be adjusted in order to increase or decrease the length oi the are of reciprocation oil the rolls 3 and 4-. is a teed chute delivering into the hopper 5 and it is pivoted at 23 so that it can be turned clockwise in Fig. 1 in respect to ts support 2 in order to dump ma terial or residual material into the hopper. F25 a handle by which a person walking; behind the machine may guide it as it is pro polled forward by the power means.

In use the cut material. falling from the chute 22 into the hopper. is loosened up and. distrilimted across the width otthe machine by the agitator 7 and is ted evenly through thehopp-er to the rolls 3 and -l. the teeth o'l these rolls nap; this material and deliver it upon the ground. The rolls nag; the material because their teeth are like saw teeth and because one is turning; in the direction to :teed whi e the other is turning; in the opposite direction preparatory to 'l eedinrr. The power means not only propels the vehicle or u'iachine as a whole but also operates the moving parts at the feed and distribution mechanism so that all that the operator or attendant is required to do is to walk behind the machine and guide it. Of" course it is necessary to replenish the supply of cut pieces of sod in the chute 22, and substantially all of this supply may he used by tipping: up the chute.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made in details of construction, arrangement and matters of mere form without departing from the spirit oil? the invention which is not limit ed to such matters or otherwise than as the prior art and the appended claims may require.

I claim:

1. An automotive spreading and sowing machine for rootplanting comprising a power means for propelling the machine, a pair of rotatively mounted rolls provided with circun'lterential spaced rows of saw teeth and the teeth of one roll projecting into the spaces between the rows of teeth. of the other roll, a hopper having at its bottom an outlet opening disposed at the space between the rolls, an agitator provided 1 with pine and arranged for horizontal reposed at the mouth of the hopper. spaced circular rows of teeth of which the teeth project into the spaces between the rows, and means for oscillating the rows of teeth in opposite directions and for reciprocating the pins. 5

3. An automotive spreading and sewing machine for root planting comprising a power means for propelling the machine, a pair of rotatively n'ionnted rolls provided with circumferential spaced rows of saw teeth and the teeth of one roll projecting into the spaces between the rows of teeth of the other roll, a hopper having at its bottom an outlet opening disposed at the space between the rolls, an agitator mounted for horizontal reciprocation at the outlet opening: of the hopper and provided with, two sets of pins of which one set pro ects,

horizontally over the rolls and of. which. the other set projects generally down ard to ward the space between the rolls, and mechanism actuated by the power device for reciprocating the agitator endwise in horizontal direction and for turning; the rolls oppositely first in one direction and then in the other direction.

HOWARD o. TooMEY, 

